" ... Now I give you something that few think about: What do you think the Internet is all about, historically? Citizens of all the countries on Earth can talk to one another without electronic borders. The young people of those nations can all see each other, talk to each other, and express opinions. No matter what the country does to suppress it, they're doing it anyway. They are putting together a network of consciousness, of oneness, a multicultural consciousness. It's here to stay. It's part of the new energy. The young people know it and are leading the way.... "

" ... I gave you a prophecy more than 10 years ago. I told you there would come a day when everyone could talk to everyone and, therefore, there could be no conspiracy. For conspiracy depends on separation and secrecy - something hiding in the dark that only a few know about. Seen the news lately? What is happening? Could it be that there is a new paradigm happening that seems to go against history?... "Read More …. "The End of History"- Nov 20, 2010 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll)

Have you seen innovation and invention in the past decade that required thinking out of the box of an old reality? Indeed, you have. I can't tell you what's coming, because you haven't thought of it yet! But the potentials of it are looming large. Let me give you an example, Let us say that 20 years ago, you predicted that there would be something called the Internet on a device you don't really have yet using technology that you can't imagine. You will have full libraries, buildings filled with books, in your hand - a worldwide encyclopedia of everything knowable, with the ability to look it up instantly! Not only that, but that look-up service isn't going to cost a penny! You can call friends and see them on a video screen, and it won't cost a penny! No matter how long you use this service and to what depth you use it, the service itself will be free.

Now, anyone listening to you back then would perhaps have said, "Even if we can believe the technological part, which we think is impossible, everything costs something. There has to be a charge for it! Otherwise, how would they stay in business?" The answer is this: With new invention comes new paradigms of business. You don't know what you don't know, so don't decide in advance what you think is coming based on an old energy world. ..."

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Wikipedia founder tackles fake news with Wikitribune

Wikipedia
founder Jimmy Wales is launching a project aimed at reshaping the news media --
and tackling the scourge of misinformation -- using the same collaborative
principles as the revolutionary online encyclopedia.

Wikitribune
will rely on a broad online community of journalists and readers as fact
checkers, a crowdsourcing model pioneered in the "wiki" system behind
Wikipedia.

"The
news is broken and we can fix it," reads the website of the project
unveiled by Wales late Monday, describing itself as focused on
"evidence-based journalism."

On Twitter,
Wales called it "a news platform that brings journalists & volunteers
together for fact-based articles with real impact."

"Wikitribune
takes professional, standards-based journalism and incorporates the radical
idea from the world of Wiki that a community of volunteers can and will
reliably protect and improve articles."

The new service
will be free, without advertising, relying on contributions from users in the
same manner as the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation that operates Wikipedia.

It will ask
supporters to subscribe for $15 per month and plans to hire at least 10
journalists to manage the site.

Wales told
the BBC: "I think we're in a world right now where people are very
concerned about making sure we have high quality fact-based information, so I
think there will be demand for this."

Fake news
emerged as a serious issue during last year's US election campaign, when
clearly fraudulent stories circulated virally on social media, potentially
swaying some voters.

Concerns
have been raised since then about hoaxes and misinformation affecting elections
in Europe; and internet firms have stepped up efforts to crack down on
"click farms" and other systems that generate online ad revenue using
made-up news stories.

Need for
innovation

Jeff
Jarvis, a City University of New York journalism professor who is an advisor to
the project, said in a blog post he is "excited" about Wikitribune.

"I see
the need for innovation around new forms of news," Jarvis said.

"The
community of contributors will vet the facts, help make sure the language is
factual and neutral, and will to the maximum extent possible be transparent
about the source of news posting full transcripts, video, and audio of
interviews."

Wikitribune's
advisory group includes Jarvis, venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki and British
actress Lily Cole, according to the website.

Jeff Howe,
a journalist who coined the term crowdsourcing and now is a professor at
Northeastern University, said this system can be positive for the news
industry.

INTERNET / CYBERSPACE

"... Now I give you something that few think about: What do you think the Internet is all about, historically? Citizens of all the countries on Earth can talk to one another without electronic borders. The young people of those nations can all see each other, talk to each other, and express opinions. No matter what the country does to suppress it, they're doing it anyway. They are putting together a network of consciousness, of oneness, a multicultural consciousness. It's here to stay. It's part of the new energy. The young people know it and are leading the way.... "

"... I gave you a prophecy more than 10 years ago. I told you there would come a day when "everyone could talk to everyone and, therefore, there could be no conspiracy." For conspiracy depends on separation and secrecy - something hiding in the dark that only a few know about. Seen the news lately? What is happening? Could it be that there is a new paradigm happening that seems to go against history? ..."Read More …. "The End of History"- Nov 20, 2010 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll)